Florida Legal Services building named in honor of Paul Doyle
For 35 years Florida Legal Services has been the…
Continue readingFoundation launches Pilot Pro Bono Program
A study funded by The Florida Bar Foundation found that Florida lawyers don’t lack the desire to provide pro bono legal services, they just lack the time. Of the lawyers…
Continue readingLaw students to focus their summer on public service
Legal aid organizations statewide are doubling as real-world training grounds for law students who have joined the Legal Aid ranks for 11 weeks through The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2009…
Continue readingFoundation grant helps demystify the bankruptcy process
In 2006, when then Florida Bar Foundation Secretary Kathleen McLeroy first heard about the uphill…
Continue readingSummer Fellow committed to helping victims of domestic violence
Summer Fellow Jarred Reiling and Supervising Attorney Kathryn Oleksy of the Legal Aid Society…
Continue readingSaving Overtown’s “Little Oasis”
Lois Rigby has lived in Overtown’s Town Park Village for two decades, but long before the HUD complex opened in 1971,…
Continue readingLeaders, cabinet leaders to be honored at Florida Bar Foundation event
Florida legislative and cabinet leaders who helped secure state funding for civil legal assistance and worked on behalf of the state’s distressed homeowners will be recognized June 25 during…
Continue readingLegislative leaders to be honored for restoring waiver of filing fees for indigent clients
Florida lawmakers who helped pass legislation reinstating the waiver of civil court filing fees for impoverished clients will be honored jointly by The Florida Bar Foundation and The Florida…
Continue readingSylvia H. Walbolt to receive Foundation’s highest honor
In recognition of 45 years of providing free legal services to clients ranging from Guantanamo detainees to a St….
Continue readingFort Lauderdale attorney Adele I. Stone to begin term as Foundation president
Fort Lauderdale attorney Adele I. Stone will take office July 1 as president of The Florida Bar Foundation, a…
Continue readingPositively pro bono: Real estate attorney becomes a lifeline for a woman and a young boy
Within three months’ time, Sandra Infante lost her mother, her sister and her brother-in-law, and not too long after that, her job. Adding to her emotional strain, at the age…
Continue readingDisproving guilt: The Innocence Project of Florida helps the wrongly convicted
Alan Crotzer celebrates after the Florida Legislature’s passage of a bill…
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